brutally honest…Better Help Growth… review of much better aid i’ve been using the service for a little over a year now and i think i have actually used it long enough to know what are the cons and pros so i’m going to stroll you through all of those and then give you my final ideas on whether i would recommend better help and whether i believe it’s the right service for you for those of you that do not understand betterhelp is an online counseling platform that links people who are looking for counseling or treatment with psychological health professionals it’s a quite simple process to get going so first you complete an online questionnaire it asks you some questions that will much better help match you with a therapist or a therapist so after you complete what i would call a quite prolonged questionnaire they ask you to produce an account and then you set up your payment choices i’ll speak about this a little bit more later but there are scholarships that can lower the price and after that you can also alter your choice on how often
you wish to pay so if you pay weekly that’s the most pricey but you can also pay ahead of time and that will make the expense cheaper for you overall and then based upon your answers to your questions in the previously mentioned survey they will match you with a therapist i’m going to utilize the words therapist and therapist interchangeably throughout this video however that’s not necessarily the case and i believe that better assistance provides both types of psychological health experts so simply keep that in mind once they match you with your counselor you have the ability to speak with them and you can establish a time to have your first main conference so it can either be through a video call through a routine phone call or through a chat or immediate message i constantly do video calls however it is great to understand that all 4 choices three truly to me however they say it’s 4 are available and i know that’s absolutely great for some people who are perhaps a little bit more nervous about treatment or not thinking about doing a video call due to the fact that it makes them uncomfortable when the day of your session comes you can either log into the web browser or log in to the mobile app you can’t do both at the same time only one at a time and after that you await your counselor to join and they will connect you to the session when they do a little bell ring and then you’re ready to go and you can begin having your your conference during your first session you’re most likely going to have just a learn more about you kind of session to figure out why are you interested in therapy what things do you wish to resolve what are your choices as someone going to therapy what are your counselors preferences and what’s their style of treatment all of those things will probably get hashed out in the first meeting and then with time you’ll get more comfortable with one another and you’ll have more of those like much deeper
sessions where you can talk about your issues and whatever it is that you want to address and then as time goes on you’ll have sessions nevertheless you spent for it or however you set it up with your counselor so with my counselor in particular i think this does differ by counselor but we do weekly sessions for one hour and i pay 35 dollars a week broken down but i have spent for all of my sessions in advance to get that cheaper rate so let’s move on to the pros and the cons of the platform i think among the biggest pros of better aid is that it is an online counseling service which makes it extremely accessible and really hassle-free for most people as long as you have a web connection you can select a variety of different ways to meet with your counselor so you can do text video calls or phone calls they send you suggestions about your appointment so it’s pretty tough to forget when you have a time set up they send you both email suggestions and text reminders and they send them to you a few days ahead and likewise a couple of hours ahead and a couple of minutes ahead so it’s a bit overkill however uh definitely efficient and another cool feature of them having a digital platform is that they provide digital group sessions and webinar type of sessions that are readily available to anyone who uses betterhelp totally free of charge it’s at no additional expense to what you already pay for your weekly sessions with your counselor now that being said in my viewpoint the platform and the app is not excellent in fact it type of sucks specifically thinking about that better aid in and of itself is a tool the product that they’re selling is this video platform that therapists can utilize to link you to their network i mean i guess they’re offering the network however i think actually what they’re offering is the tool and it’s not an excellent one it’s pretty cumbersome there are no choices for screen sharing Better Help Growth
or talking or messaging throughout a session pictures are shared very oddly they’re shared as files and you can just send them separately so you can’t like drag and drop into a window or something you need to like browse select the image then put it in and then the person can’t see a sneak peek of the picture they have to click into the file to see it it’s simply extremely out-of-date small things like when you push enter in the chat window your messages don’t send it actually develops a line break so